Religion & Spirituality - 11 April 2007

2007-04-11 02:35:21 · 16 answers · asked by G's Random Thoughts 5

I went to a Catholic funeral yesterday - and I didn't even burst into flames when I walked into the church!

After the mass (is that even the right word?) when people went up to "take the biscuit," the deceased's family didn't. Were they simply not Catholic, or was there some reason why they weren't "allowed" to?

Also, only the Father got to drink the wine, which I thought was a tad unfair - is that a concession to hygiene, or is that usual too?

Thanks guys.

2007-04-11 02:33:10 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-04-11 02:32:52 · 10 answers · asked by DERRICK 1

other times they have no problem judging.
Why is that?

2007-04-11 02:31:59 · 5 answers · asked by Samurai Jack 6

2007-04-11 02:31:36 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

Only in the last hour I've read again around 30 statements like "good deeds don't get you to Heaven, you need to believe in Jesus, that's all".

If we are going to be judged anyway, what kind of person doesn't wanna be judged on his/her deeds? How bad a person must you be to hope that believing in some dude gives you a free ticket to eternal happiness?

2007-04-11 02:31:22 · 13 answers · asked by ? 6

I have a facinating view on spiritualism but it seems as though people aren really interested or i am looking in the wrong places?

2007-04-11 02:30:42 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

and that (insert name of deity here) will surely reward His faithful and punish the unbelievers?


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2007-04-11 02:29:13 · 20 answers · asked by Samurai Jack 6

Is it more important to stop it than it is to argue over pissant ideological differences?

2007-04-11 02:29:10 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

Like did he make water into wine? Heal the sick? Raise the dead? Heal little sick kids? Cure people just from touching his robes and such?

2007-04-11 02:28:04 · 17 answers · asked by eau de pissalms n 1

2007-04-11 02:24:41 · 28 answers · asked by Ferret 4

2007-04-11 02:24:17 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

That seems to be the main argument against gay marriage from Christians.

2007-04-11 02:23:04 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

Why can't you people just explain in your own words to us.
That way it will prove to us that you understand what you are talking about and not just being used as a zombielike pawn of the bible.

2007-04-11 02:19:12 · 34 answers · asked by Anonymous

Tee hee.

2007-04-11 02:18:35 · 13 answers · asked by eau de pissalms n 1

2007-04-11 02:18:25 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

a separate forum for all of the God -bashers?
I've never seen so much hostility & moronic rhetoric from well educated people....so sad, so incredibly SAD.........<>< <><

2007-04-11 02:17:37 · 13 answers · asked by Barbara J 3

2007-04-11 02:16:34 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-04-11 02:15:57 · 2 answers · asked by Jb Azeez Saheb 1

2007-04-11 02:14:49 · 18 answers · asked by chris w 2

2007-04-11 02:11:18 · 11 answers · asked by Artistic Hand 2

2007-04-11 02:07:27 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-04-11 02:06:55 · 19 answers · asked by Artistic Hand 2

i have been to the mountain,i have seen the other side

2007-04-11 02:01:15 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

On the subjetc of homosexuality: I am a Christian and have no problem with homosexuality at all:

Leviticus 18:22+Leviticus 20:13

These passages are the most explicit regarding the bible’s attitude towards homosexuality. They are ququoted time after time as being the reason Christians should condemn gay men and women or at the very least to encourage them to “heal themselves”.

But surely this is about context.

A sexual act involving two men was regarded as an "abomination" for the simple reason that it could not result in the pro-creation of children. Indeed, female homosexual acts were consequently not so seriously regarded, and are not mentioned at all in the Old Testament A tribe struggling to populate a country in which its people were outnumbered would value procreation highly but such values are rendered questionable in a world facing uncontrolled overpopulation.

2007-04-11 01:55:49 · 42 answers · asked by Searching 2

Like Buddha.

2007-04-11 01:55:17 · 16 answers · asked by Judas. S. Burroughs. 3

We see that all living things in nature consume food. Then there are living creatures also at the fringes of organically recognisable life form; the bacteria living near hot waters vents by hydrogen sulphide deep on the seas bed where no other means of sustenance of life is available; then viruses that are semi alive, as they can stay dormant in crystalline form dead for years but reproduce like living organisms; my hair is not alive but it needs constant feeding.

If atom is the basic unite of matter then what energy source drives it as a mini solar system? And at a grander scale of things, what is the feed for the gravitational force present in all material objects?

What does religion say about this? In Quran, for example, Allah is the sole Creator of the universe who constantly nurtures and feeds all the worlds in existence. What is your personal stand on the matter: has God created a dead wilderness for us to be in, or a place both physically and conceptually very much alive?

2007-04-11 01:54:38 · 10 answers · asked by Shahid 7

2007-04-11 01:53:11 · 9 answers · asked by ThanksBelit 2

http://www.slate.com/id/2155745/...

2007-04-11 01:52:00 · 5 answers · asked by Judas. S. Burroughs. 3

and all other attrocities that have happened in the past?

2007-04-11 01:49:37 · 14 answers · asked by Vikrant S 1